Packaging Giraffe

Giraffe is the free open source variant of the Zarafa Collaboration Platform packaged for Debian.

Resources

• Alioth Project: https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-giraffe/

• SCM: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-giraffe/giraffe.git;a=summary

• Mailing List: https://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-giraffe-discuss

• Upstream: https://community.zarafa.com/

Current State

The packages are not available by the Debian repositories, the packaging process is not yet finished.

To Do

• repackage libvmime (removed from Debian https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=774306 , gcrypt bug https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=638651)

• import upstream version 7.2.0
• Fix Lintian errors and warnings

• Review and forward patches against libical (and libvmime, see above) on upstream. For now it seems we can run with the versions of the revitalized package.

• Move dlopen'ed libs to private directory

• Remove embedded copies of fckeditor via the dfsg-clean branch in git, (use fckeditor package)

  • To be re done with version 7.2
• Use Debconf to generate the initial configuration
  • database name
  • database user
  • database login
  • place of the database (local or remote)
  • more needed?

• Use dbconfig-common to generate the initial database configuration

  • installing zarafa-server breaks without this

  • zarafa-server shouldn't create the database on it owns (it needs to much mysql rights for this -> CREATE DATABASE is needed)

    • we can do the creation of the database by dbconfig-common and the setup of zarafa-server by the postinst script

• Package webapp (which seems possible since it is AGPL3, too).

• WebApp tarball ships jQuery, extjs (3.4) and TinyMCE 4.0. (TinyMCE does not seem to be in the debian repositories)

  • Lintian is complaining about jquery-1.6.2.min.js, player.swf, moxieplayer.swf, ext-{base,all}.js, prettify.js
• Test full functionality
  • We'd need some Outlook users here, too...
• fix init script
  • systemd compatibility
  • error out when database is missing
• systemd unit
• clean up packages (empty packages etc.)
• MTA integration
• check package descriptions
• logrotate
• check pre-/postinstall scripts
• z-push upstream update

The origin of this list is provided by GuidoGünther in https://honk.sigxcpu.org/piki/agx/publications/2011-06-debian-groupware-zs.pdf

Debranding/Rebranding

We have currently a re branded artwork made by René Heinen. The graphics are used inside the web application.

The main login window.

The graphic on the left side on top.